Conflicts with GDRP requirements!

  • Resolved presscode

    (@saschinger)


    9 months, 1 week ago

    To display YouTube and other videos to website visitors, GDPR regulations require informing them beforehand that a connection to YouTube will be made, which may transfer their IP address and other personal data.

    Content blockers, placed as overlays on video thumbnails with consent buttons and necessary privacy notices and links, can load and display YouTube videos after consent is given.

    Various solutions work well with the standard YouTube embed block to meet these requirements:

    Embed Privacy, WP YouTube Lyte, Embed Plus for YouTube, and YouTube Embed by EmbedPress, among others, ensure GDPR compliance – but are incompatible with PrestoPlayer.

    Instead of seeking support from all these and other necessary solution providers to integrate with PrestoPlayer, it would be beneficial (and demonstrate respect for our laws and the deployment-challenges faced by administrators), if you could offer an integrated overlay-button consent solution yourselves.

    Any chance to bring this on your feature-request-table? Impossible to switch to PrestoPlayer on my hundreds of clients sites as it conflicts with GDPR! And upgrading to your Pro-Version in order to use BunnyNet or self host is not an option due to the unwillingness of clients to move away from YouTube ?????♂?

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  • Plugin Support prajna

    (@prajnajogi)

    Hello @saschinger We understand the importance of ensuring that your websites meet all legal requirements, and we appreciate your feedback on this matter.

    Currently, PrestoPlayer does not have compatibility with the various solutions you mentioned for GDPR-compliant video embeds. I’m also pleased to inform you that our developers have added this feature to our request list.

    Unfortunately, we do not have an ETA at the moment. We recommend keeping an eye on our changelog for updates on fixes and improvements: https://prestoplayer.com/whats-new/

    However, we do offer a privacy-enhanced mode for YouTube, You can enable this feature by navigating to:

    Presto Player >> Settings >> Integrations >> YouTube option , Screenshot: https://bsf.d.pr/i/j4LPjc

    We value your feedback and are committed to continuously improving our product to meet the needs of our users. Thank you for your understanding and patience.

    Thread Starter presscode

    (@saschinger)

    Thanks, @prajnajogi

    I have enabled the ‘privacy-enhanced mode for YouTube,’ but, to be honest, this setting is not sufficient.

    While it allows embedding videos without cookies, GDPR compliance requires preventing all connections to YouTube until explicit user consent is obtained.

    I kindly request that your development team prioritize this issue, as it impacts all European website owners who embed YouTube videos using PrestoPlayer. I appreciate your attention to this matter and look forward to a prompt solution.

    Kind regards
    Sascha

    Plugin Support prajna

    (@prajnajogi)

    @saschinger I understand your concerns regarding GDPR compliance.

    I have passed on your feedback to our development team for their consideration. We will get back to you with any updates as soon as we have them.

    I would love to use Presto Player for YouTube videos if there were a way for us to do it. The GDPR compliance issue is the main reason we can’t use it, but we’re also hindered by the lack of support for captions. If Presto Player addressed both the GDPR compliance and accessibility issues, it would open a whole new market.

    (I’m not sure if Presto Player can add support for YouTube captions since Plyr Player doesn’t seem to support it. I hope I’m wrong.)

    Plugin Author Andre Gagnon

    (@2winfactor)

    Thanks for all the valueable feedback. The tricky part here is there are dozens of cookie consent plugins, and adding compatibility with all of them (at least from our end) wouldn’t be possible. Perhaps if anyone on this thread could share which cookie consent banners you are using we could look into an integration, or reach out to the plugin developer to see if they can add compatibility.

    Thanks for the answer. I can of course not speak for @saschinger, but I’m not looking for an integration with cookie consent banners. They are annoying, so we rather ask our users for consent when required.

    Everything we would need is the poster to be loaded from our server and an overlay with a consent button. No data should load from YouTube until consent has been given.

    See e.g., how Nextcloud has solved the situation on https://nextcloud.com/office/ (the embedded Vimeo video).

    • This reply was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by karlemilnikka. Reason: Added an example
    Plugin Author Andre Gagnon

    (@2winfactor)

    Thanks for the valueable feedback. We do have this in our backlog, I don’t have and ETA for it at the moment, but we will revisit after our current objectives.

    Thanks!

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